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Title: Shenanigans at Sugar Creek

Author: Paul Hutchens

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_Shenanigans at Sugar Creek_

SHENANIGANS AT SUGAR CREEK

by PAUL HUTCHENS

_Copyright 1947, by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company_

_Set up and printed, April, 1947_

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

_Shenanigans at Sugar Creek_

_By_

PAUL HUTCHENS

WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS 1947 MICHIGAN

1

One tough guy in the Sugar Creek territory was enough to keep us all
on the lookout all the time for different kinds of trouble. We'd
certainly had plenty with Big Bob Till, who, as you maybe know, was
the big brother of Little Tom Till, our newest gang member.

But when a new quick-tempered boy whose name was Shorty Long, moved
into the neighborhood and started coming to our school, and when
Shorty and Bob began to chum around together, we never knew whether
we'd get through even one day without something happening to start a
fight, or get one of the gang into trouble with our teacher. On top of
that, we had a _new_ teacher, a _man_ teacher at that, who didn't
exactly know that most of us tried to behave ourselves most of the
time.

Poetry, who is the barrel-shaped member of our gang, had made up a
poem about our new teacher, whom not a one of us liked very well, on
account of not wanting a _new_ teacher when we'd liked our pretty lady
other teacher so _extra_ well. This is the way the poem went:

"_The Sugar Creek Gang had the worst of teachers
And 'Black' his named was called,
His round, red face had the homeliest of features,
He was fat and forty and bald._"

Poetry was always writing a new poem or always quoting one somebody
else wrote.

Maybe it was a library book that was to blame for _some_ of the
trouble we ha